Great event if you're in Durham for the 140th Big Meeting
Martin Smith OFaC
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All things trade union building and struggling together to change our world. Solidarity forever.
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Organising for a Change estimates that the roll out of remote controlled cars in London is set to deliver a £3.3 billion per year hit to the local economy in lost earnings as Uber drivers are… | Marti...
Organising for a Change estimates that the roll out of remote controlled cars in London is set to deliver a £3.3 billion per year hit to the local economy in lost earnings as Uber drivers are replaced...
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t.co/T3zGOqjWeb Episode 25 of the Organising for a Change podcast discusses what will probably be the next big industrial battle for union builders in many areas: making sure those forced onto zero hours platform jobs see how their pay is worked out and can negotiate
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Always tell your Uber driver what the fare is you're paying. The driver doesn't set the fare and often get less than half of it
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The Best Politicians Money Can Buy
Our democracy appears to have been bought and soldFrom multiple media reports in recent days weeks and years, it’s clear our democratic system is facing a crisis of corruption greater even than the To...
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Poverty pay for staff. A £10,000 pay rise for the principal. That is why Windsor Forest Colleges Group staff were on the picket lines today. Refused even the smallest pay rise for college teachers and rewarded with a senior role at the Department for Education.
CEO pay rose 20x faster than workers’ pay in 2025. Top CEOs already make 285x what workers do—and they’re fed up. Working people don’t have to accept this. A union contract is how we take back our power and get our fair share of the profits WE create.
May 4 - The Day that Changed the World On this day in Labor History the year was 1886. That evening a worker’s rally in Chicago Illinois became known as the Haymarket Tragedy. On May 1, workers from across the city and country had held massive rallies for the eight-hour day. Two days later,the po
May 4 - The Day that Changed the World
On this day in Labor History the year was 1886. That evening a worker’s rally in Chicago Illinois became known as the Haymarket Tragedy. On May 1, workers from across the city and country had held massive rallies for the eight-hour day. Two days later,the police had fired into a crowd of workers on strike outside of the McCormick Reaper plant in the Chicago neighborhood of Pilsen.
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open.spotify.com/episode/6wVh... Latest Organising for a Change podcast on union culture and strategy for growth
24 Union cultures and union building feat. Becky Wright
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www.theguardian.com/business/202... Uk unions call for an end to dynamic pay and pricing and a halt to the rolling Uberisation of all our jobs
Dynamic pay on platforms such as Uber should be banned, says TUC
Exclusive: Union body finds workers describing themselves as ‘gambling’ because wages felt like the outcome of chance rather than work
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open.spotify.com/episode/5X89... Latest OfaC podcast with Jane Holgate and John Page authors of Changemakers. Radical strstegies fof social movement organisers
23 Building social change feat. Jane Holgate, John Page
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500,000 of us marched this Saturday against the far-right – against division, and for hope. While corporations and the super-rich profit from destruction, they want us blaming each other. But this weekend, we stood together.❤️ #together
Big shout to UCU members who showed up. This is what our union stands for. Education builds cohesion and educators stand for unity, not division.
TOMORROW: we march together in London to reject the far-right's politics of division. 📅 Saturday 28 March 📍 Meet the climate justice bloc at Start Zone F, Position 14 on Park Lane at 12pm 🚶 March from Park Lane to Whitehall ✊ Together against the far-right
www.togetheralliance.org.uk/march Reclaiming our London streets from racist thugs. Solidarity to the "No Kings" demos across the USA also tomorrow
28 March — Together Alliance
Together is an alliance of hundreds of civil society organisations united against the far right.
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msmithorganiser.wixsite.com/organisingfo... A trade union perspective on HR 40 years into this social and economic experiment
Handling HR
Human Resources (HR) has become an industry all of itself and one of the fastest growing in the UK in recent years in terms of the numbers it employs within public and private sector organisations But...
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One good 'straw in the wind' to identify a failing organisation is when they start to fix the blame for their decline on their potential supporters, service users, customers or members. According to the Labour Party 69% of those who voted in Gorton and Denton this week are "extremists"
If you can’t police in a free society without hiding your face, the problem is with the policing — not the public. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...
ICE's Masks Are All a Lie
Working for ICE is actually less dangerous than being an elementary school student in America.
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These companies built machines designed to addict the brains of children, and they did it on purpose https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3wlpqpe2z4o
Instagram and YouTube owners built 'addiction machines', trial told
The tech giants are under scrutiny over social media addiction in a landmark jury trial in Los Angeles
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“For Keir Starmer to say Peter Mandelson ‘lied to me’ leaves Starmer with zero credibility.” @drjogrady.bsky.social
msmithorganiser.wixsite.com/organisingfo... More discussion for union builders on how to help workers build power in "Bullshit Jobs."
Building Unions in “Bullshit Jobs”
As long ago as 2018, social anthropologist and comrade David Graeber set out his “Bullshit Jobs” theory. (David Graeber: Bullshit Jobs – The rise of pointless work and what we can do about it. Penguin...
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Labour promised the biggest wave of insourcing in a generation. A Labour Mayor must now deliver. Insource TfL’s cleaners - Join the protest 📅 4 February
“Children and students in Palestine deserve access to education and educators should be safe to teach and research, without fear and oppression.” @drjogrady.bsky.social
Union condemns treatment of education leaders on Palestine visit
The University and College Union (UCU) has today condemned the blocking by Israel of a delegation of education leaders trying to visit Palestine as part of International Day of Education.
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Dear the Labour Party. Your problem is Rachels "fiscal rules" not who your leader is. Thankyou for your attention to this matter.
Thank you to @organising4achange.bsky.social for inviting me on their Podcast. As Trade Unionist we build hope among our members, we can and must be ambitious for what we can achieve – listen to our chat about our plans for the @tucneyh.bsky.social; open.spotify.com/episode/4wFB...
22 How to be "aggresively hopeful" feat. Dave Pike
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